Oh, Moses

Last November, in Oklahoma's Haskell County, the commissioners approved placing a Ten Commandments monument on the County Court House grounds. The Court House is in Stigler, about 90 miles south of Tulsa.

More than 15 churches in the area raised the $2,500 to build and erect the 8-by-3 foot granite monolith. The churches that raised the money are undoubtedly Christian. Their motives in this whole demented saga are suspect, in that nothing on the monument relates to Jesus Christ.

Last Thursday, the ACLU filed suit in Federal District Court asking the court to declare the placement of the monument on public property unconstitutional and require the county commissioners to remove it from the grounds.

County commissioner Henry Few said he'll stand in front of removal equipment, if necessary. "We'll go as far as we have to go," he said.

While twenty percent of the county lives in poverty (per the Census Bureau), these churches seem more concerned about a monument to Jewish rules than they are about following Jesus who taught his followers to feed, clothe, and shelter the needy.

With one in five Haskell County citizens living in poverty, the politicos and the religious community have NO moral authority to support their indignation about the lawsuit.

Obviously, the church community and commissioners of Haskell county are more interested in parading their hypocritical self-righteousness in public than caring for the hundreds of Haskell county children who live on a poverty diet every day.

In a lapse of historical relevance, the Daily Oklahoman editorialized that this case is the "latest to feed the desire of the secular fundementalists to erase any vestige of faith from the public square." The very existence of this country is BECAUSE of people of faith fleeing from another government's religion mandated in the public square!


Keywords: Oklahoma, Ten Commandments, and ACLU.